Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

have been closed on account of scarlet
fever.
The j. P. Pauly Jail Building and Man
ufacturing Company's works in st. Louis
were burned out few nights ago.
VIM. Grassland, large cattle dealer at
| Summer, was arrested recently on q
charge of larceny, on a requi sition from
| Iowa.
Sing Lou, sent to the penitentiary from
| Kirksville in 1885 for grand larceny, has
| been released. He was the only China
man ever confined in the prison.
ST. Joseph wholesale merchants COM
plain of discrimination in the classified
| tion of staple goods from the seaboard
| to that city.
John Gutherman and William Suffer
had a row in saloon in st. Louis few
nights ago. The former is dead, and the
latter is under arrest.
| Thieves stole a mail sack at the Missouri
/ Pacific depot in jefferson City a few
j nights ago. No registered letters were in
| the pouch No clew has been obta ined as
! to the thieves.
| The directors of the Kansas City Fair
Association have made arrangements tc
liquidate the indebtedness of $4,000 in
| Cured during the fall fair season, ow ing
to the weeks rain, which necessitated
| postponement, and cold weather and the
! counter attraction of the Presidents visit,
which caused the receipts to be light.
The stockholders are not particle dis
couraged, and it is hoped to make up past
losses next year.
John Maher died in cell at st. Lonis
few nights ago, a victim of alcoholism.
| All the Baltimore & Ohio wires in st.
Louis have been disconnected and run into
| the Western Union office.
The ST. IrOriS a1actjop fraI1d oaSaS ara
| set for jury trial in the United States Dis
trict Court on the 10Th, 10th and 18th of
! November.
The recent cold wave, the backbone of
| which is now broken, was just twenty
days ahead of its season, according to the
weather statistics of other years.
In the State Supreme Court the case to
test the constitutionality of the Local
| Option law was submitted last week on
briefs. An opinion is expected some time
; next month.
Governor Marmaduke has offered re-
ward of 5000 for the arrest of Abe Fry,
who is under Indictment in Saline County
for murder in the first degree, and is now
a fugitive from justice.
The November docket of the United
| States District Court at st. Louis consists
of $50 cases. OF these 143 are criminal
causes, three are law cases and the re-
naming four are admiralty cases. The
! jury trial cases begin November 10 with
| the trials of the alleged violators of the
election laws. Judge Thayer will preside.
VIM. L. Kay, a painter, formerly of st.
Louis, took dose of morphine at Kansas
| City few days ago to end his life, made
miserable by liquor, and when the fact
/ was discovered he was too far gone to be
resuscitated and died. He left wife and
| three children.
Governor Marmaduke has appointed j.
! E. Hubbell prosecuting attorney of Web
| ster County, vice Jos. Wisely, resigned,
! and Henry Shuts prosecuting attorney
| of Holt County, vice j. l.. Rea, resigned.
! John Mason, of Albany, has been indict-
! ed by the United States grand jury at
/ Kansas City for obtaining pensions for a
woman who never lived. The name given
| was Jane Doolan, and he had been draw
| ing money in her name for nearly twenty
| years.
Henry T. Douglass, colored, died recent.
| lv at the residence of his son, Rev. G. M.
Douglass, in ST. Louis, at the age of one
hundred and six years, having been born
in Madison County, KY, in 1871. His first
owner was man named Douglass, whose
name he took.
While Colonel M. j. Payne's colored
hoster was driving the Kansas City gas
manufacturers horse and buggy to the
office few days ago he was halted by a
young man, who said he was Payne's son,
and proceeded to take charge of the
equipage and drive off. The hostler was
afraid, and no trace of him or his stolen
| rig had been found.
The thirty-third annual session of the
annual Conference of the Fourth Episco-
pal District of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church met at ST. Pauls
| Chapel, st. Louis, last week. Bishop John
| M. Brown, of Washington, D. c., presid-
| ing
| Charles Felkner, a switchman employed
on the Iron Mountain railway, met with a
| violent death at st. Louis a few days ago
while coupling freight cars. He was stand
! ing at the side of the train, when one of
| the cars toppled over, striking him and
crushing his head and body in horrible
manner. He was lifted from under the
car and died in few minutes.
| A st. Joseph street car company cl aims
exclusive ownership of strip of ground
four feet broad in the center of Sixth
street in that city and that this portion of
| the street is only open for public travel
subject to the use of the company.
While Henry Dryer, negro express
man at Kansas City, was lifting in his
wagon, which rested squarely across a
Missouri Pacific track, few days ago, a
freight train came along suddenly and
struck and demolished the wagon, throw
| ing Dwyer under the engine, breaking his
left arm, injuring his spine and tearing the
| scalp off his head. He is not expected to
| recover.
| Alfred Cannon, the Fayette County Ull.)
murderer, who escaped from a Missouri
Pacific train in Sedalia while being taken
| back to Illinois in the custody of Sheriff
Mays, was captured near Windsor, Henry
County. He had managed to remove his
a sling, and this fact caused him to be de-
| tected. He was taken to the Clinton Jail
and held until the Illinois authorities came
| after him.
Isaac Hamilton, colored, was arrested
st. Louis few days ago and locked up on
| capias issued on the strength of All in
| dictment returned by the last grand-jury.
The indictment charges Hamilton with
murder in the second degree, in shooting
and instantly killing Wales Green, also
| colored. The shooting took place on the
night of September II last, at festival OF
the African Zion M. E. Church.
Coal dealers are looking up.
Rebecca M. Courson, a widow, residing
| with her son in st. Louis, accidentally
overturned a coal-ol lamp few nights
ago. The burning fluid communicated to
her clothes, and before aid could be in
voked her entire body, limbs and arms
were severely burned. The victim fingered
in intense pain for few hours, when she
died.
At the ST T,or;c ExpoSition during the